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Photoshop Fails At Counterfeit Prevention

Posted by timothy on from the but-the-secret-porn-filter-works-great dept.

JediDan writes "Wired reports that the 'Anti-counterfeiting provisions in the latest version of Adobe Systems' flagship product have proven little more than a speed bump, but company representatives insist that including them was the right thing to do.' Kevin Connor, Adobe's director of product management for professional digital imaging said, 'As a market leader and a good corporate citizen, this just seems like the right thing to do.' Maybe if they didn't spend R&D time and money on useless features, their products would be more affordable."

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  1. Re:GIMP plugin? by Bagels · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    It's fairly pointless unless it can be made password-protected (so that other users can't disable it). Does anyone know whether that's the case?

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  2. Re:My grandmother is a $20 bill? by DoorFrame · · Score: 1, Offtopic

    Congratulations. You're the first person who's made me laugh out loud while reading Slashdot in a long time. Quite an accomplishment.

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  3. Re:What were they thinking? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I've found some very interesting copywrite protection in IE that was so pointless it's funny. For example if you go to http://sunshinegirl.canoe.ca/ and highlight the picture and right click it it says "Copy not allowed!" but if you highlight it and use the pull down menu Edit, then copy it works fine, or file "save as" works too.. I don't really understand how they could remember to stop right clicks but not edit / copy...

  4. Re:GIMP plugin? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks for beating the joke into the ground Captain Obvious.

  5. Re:My grandmother is a $20 bill? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    C'mon mods...give the off-topics a break. The parent was brutally funny and the response was what most of us were thinking anyway.

    Just a thought.

  6. Re:My grandmother is a $20 bill? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Oh that's real funny mods...-1 offtopic screw you.

    Here's hoping all your girlfriends turn into Bea Arthur impersonators.

  7. Re:Mismanaged resources by Doppler00 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    What is wrong with the dvorak keyboard?